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Saturday, February 10, 2007

Famous Irish Quotes & Sayings - 6


"Being Born in a Stable does not make you a Horse"
-Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, referring to his Irish birth. Wellington's comment, with its allusions to Christ's birth in a stable, obviously portray's his resentment that he was born in a country inhabited by a people that his imperialist aristocratic pedigree felt was an inferior breed

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